A poet once asked, “How does the seed reveal the tree, but yet conceal all that it will ever be?” In this session, participants will practice radical empathy by recognizing and questioning deficit-based thinking to reframe how they talk about and work with students, staff, and their community. Participants will identify and define their own core values and brainstorm ways they model them in their work through the filters of their personally inherent, acquired, and organizational traits. The facilitator will present a 4-prong strategy to focus on the potential in students, staff and community – reflect, recognize, reframe, and respond.
